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A North European basket hilted dusagge or 'sinclair' saberlate 16th century
8 June 2015, 10:00 PDT
San FranciscoSold for US$3,510 inc. premium
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A North European basket hilted dusagge or 'sinclair' saber
late 16th century
late 16th century
Broad, curved 31 inch blade with 11 inch yelman, shallow 28 inch central fuller with narrow, crudely forged second fuller below the spine; one side of blade with a crescent-shaped mark, possibly an armorer's mark. Steel hilt composed of faceted bars and comprising long, recurved quillons with spirally fluted ball finials; outer defense, a large fluted shell, the lower side with recurved bar joined to the knucklebow, the bottom edge with a short bar extending almost to the pommel; inner defense, a U-shaped bar joined to the quillons with an attached thumb ring and a second branch with two bars, one extending to the top of the knucklebow, the other to the top of the knucklebow. Pommel of compressed square form. Simple wooden grip retaining the original black leather wrapping.
Condition: Blade showing areas of pitting overall with some heavy pitting and edge losses at the point. Hilt showing areas of light pitting. Grip retaining most of the leather wrap.
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Condition: Blade showing areas of pitting overall with some heavy pitting and edge losses at the point. Hilt showing areas of light pitting. Grip retaining most of the leather wrap.
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Footnotes
Note: An infantry saber in use during the late 16th and early 17th centuries and long identified with the colloquial identification 'sinclair saber'. The terms dusagge, from the German, or tessak (tesak), from the Czech, are probably more correct.